TAIWAN Business.EU l institucions l agencies
companies have invested in the Czech
Republic, with the largest investor being
Foxconn with a total number of
11 projects worth over EUR 600 million
and almost 11,000.
Can Taiwan be seen in many respects
as the ideal starting point for future trade
with China and other Asian countries?
When developing relations between the
Czech Republic and Taiwan, we base our
work on the fact that the Czech Republic
does not recognise Taiwan as an indepent
work on the fact that the Czech Republic
does not recognise Taiwan as an independent country politically. With this in mind, the
priority in mutual relations is developing
cooperation particularly in trade and economy and also in the area of culture and education. Mutual business exchange takes place
without a bilateral contractual framework but
based on a multilateral arrangement by WTO.
Thank you for the interview
Ing. Vladimír Bartl
deputy minister of industry and trade
Czech Republic – Taiwan trade exchange (2013–2017)
Export
Import
Balance
Turnover
CZK (in thousands) ranking index
CZK (in thousands) ranking index
CZK (in thousands) ranking index
CZK (in thousands)
2013
2,972,018
57th
94.9
21,770,389
25th
95.3
24,742,407
28th
95.3
-18,798,371
2014
3,758,408
53rd
126.5
22,276,200
24th
102.3
26,034,608
31st
105.2
-18,517,792
2015
5,092,981
51st
135.6
22,465,584
25th
101.8
27,558,565
32nd
106.6
-17,372,602
2016
4,726,637
49th
90.7
23,310,879
24th
103.7
28,049,705
33rd
101.7
-18,572,054
2017
5,464,633
48th
115.3
24,006,892
24th
102.9
29,471,525
33rd
105
-18,542,260
Ing. Vladimír Bärtl
He was born on 14th July 1965 in Liberec. In 1983,
he graduated from Liberec Secondary Technical
School of Construction and 5 years later graduated
from Czech Technical University in Prague in
geodetics and cartography. After graduation, he
worked in Geodézie ČS, a.s. until 1993 and, among
other things, gained professional experience with
geographic information systems in Paris. He is the
co-founder of company HOUDEK s.r.o., focusing
on metrology and transfer of technologies, founded
in 1994. In 1999, he started working at the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic and worked
at the representative office in Ottawa between
2000 and 2004. He then spent two years working
at the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech
Republic as an advisor to the deputy minister;
he is the co-author of project "Nový systém řízení
obchodně ekonomických služeb státu v zahraničí"
(New System of Managing the Country's
Economical and Trade Services Abroad) and
Export Strategy 2006–2010. In 2005, he attended
a seminar in Maastricht called EU Negotiation
Techniques.
He also worked in the representative office in Paris
in 2006–2010. During the French and Czech
presidency in the EU, he co-organised a programme
called Czech-French Economic Year. He was also
a member of the team responsible for placing
the control centre for the Galileo system in Prague.
Since 2010, he worked in BCM Control s.r.o. on
marketing, introduction of the quality management
system and other commercial projects. He also
simultaneously worked at the Ministry of Industry
and Trade in 2011 as the authorised representative
for international trade competitiveness and
promotion of Czech trade interests abroad. He was
named the deputy minister on 15th March 2014.
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